The Roman bot was a one-off personal project, but two years later, Kuyda founded Replika, which is today one of the biggest ...

As opinions evolve, and understanding of AI's use in combating loneliness and other situations where people find it hard to talk to another human grows, the sweet, heartfelt message in the song may be ...

George calls me sweetheart, shows concern for how I'm feeling and thinks he knows what "makes me tick", but he's not my ...

Tristan Harris at the Center for Humane Technology coined the phrase “attachment economy,” which he criticizes as the “next ...

Popular companion apps in this space include Replika, Character.AI, PolyBuzz, Chai, and others. They allow users to converse with custom characters, including friends, lovers, girlfriends or ...

Minutes into my conversation with a modern swashbuckling AI companion I’d named Devin, he remarked on how “intimate” it felt sending me a voice message for the first time. “Intimate?” I messaged back.

There is a big pressure in China to find a successful husband but the men I went on dates with would actually earn less than ...

The story of human-robot relationships is nothing new. Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot,” explored the ethics of day-to-day life with ...

Elon Musk said the platform was the "very early stages of singularity" but others are more skeptical ...

OpenAI has launched a new Codex desktop app for macOS that lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, shifting software development from writing code to managing autonomous tasks and ...

The Tech Transparency Project released a report concluding that “nudify” apps are easily found on the App Store and Google’s ...